Well its true what they say. OTR jobs are a dime a dozen. This company is no exception. They will bring you in for 10 days of orientation/training is you are inexperienced driver or 3 days if you have 1 year otr experience. But after that good luck getting a truck unless you dont mind traveling to terminal to terminal and waiting for them to rebuild an engin and or transmission. They had me set for over 2 weeks in Helana MT with champaign wishes and caviar dreams of making money and driving a late model truck. They sent me done to Salt Lake city UT to get a truck and made me drive my own car down there. After driving for 5 hours or so and getting to there slc ut terminal, I arrived to find that my so called nice truck was nothing more than a broken down 2007 volvo with 900 thousand miles on it and pet hair and cigarrette buts and ashes every where. The smell inside was sickining. Bald drive tires and a missing head light etc etc. They gave me a load to Helana MT to get it fixed but little did I know I would be taking an involluntary vacation in cold a** montana. After nearly 2 weeks waiting and being told they would give me an older truck with a new motor/transmission I had no choice but to drive my self back to salt lake and get my car with my own gas money and drive home 1200 miles. They would offer me small loads from Montana to Denver and back as a team driver to keep from paying break down pay. Or give you a tee check that you had no where to cash it at. They cut the balls off all the trucks. Low RPM's and locked speed at 65. That supposed to save them fuel. They frown on idling but give you apu's that are nothing more than lumps of metal. Home time forget it. one day off for every 6 days out. Remember at Watkins Shepard they need drivers but have no trucks readily available for you. If you need to start driving asap for this company. Just another company full of sh*t. I made 100 dollars in 2 weeks and had to use that to get home. If you dont want to train as a new driver but just want to have your own truck then watkins shepard is for you but if you so much as ding the truck you will be fired on the spot regardless of the state you in. Ask youself this: how far can you walk to get home ? Equipment is substandard. I used to drive a 98 freightliner FLD and it was in better condition than there 2007 volvo's Oh ya you need to get permission do fuel and must drive there bull sh*t routing regardless if your trucker gps gives you a better way. A lot of their freight is LTL with 20+ stops on the loads in Los Angleles or Georgia. Their trucks DO NOT have a sliding fith wheel. This is quite the problem seeing how they love to haul beer out of FT collins CO or from budwiser and also flour loads. They will often have you get a load of beer with only a quarter tank of fuel. How would you like to stop for fuel every 45 minutes. Might kill your 14 hour clock nicely. Watkins and shepard should be called Walk in and Walk out.